Contact Improvisation Essentials and Explorations

 

A weekend workshop leading into a complimentary Sunday evening class series exploring classic, physics-based Contact Improvisation. The weekend workshop is intended as a well-rounded introduction and training in the the basis of CI. The series assumes an introduction to the basis of CI and is intended to dive deeper and spring off of the fundamentals. The Essentials weekends are a different flow each time and worth repeating. The Explorations series assuming something like at least one Essentials weekend.

What: an affordable, beginners-friendly contact improvisation workshop focusing on core practices of classic, physics-based CI
When: 25-26 October 2025, 10-17h
Where: Fudoshin Aikido Dojo, Leipzig
With Whom:

  • Deborah Manavi (Kassel/Leipzig)
  • Olha Bershadska (Kyiv/Leipzig)
  • Daniela Ciccolini (Buenos Aires/Leipzig)
  • Laura Bein (Weimar/Leipzig)

For Whom: beginning contactors looking for an introduction and experienced dancers who want to dive into and refresh core practices and techniques of CI

Essentials workshops are a mix of repeated material which develops through repetition with new exercises and doorways into core explorations. They are intended to be both for repeat participation and open for new participants each time.

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What: a 7 week series of class/labs developing and springing off of classic, physics-based CI
When: 2.11 to 14.12 2025
Sundays: 18h – 20h class into 20h + open practice
Where: Tanzerei Flugfisch, Leipzig
With Whom:

  • Karl Frost (California/Leipzig)
  • Olha Bershadska (Kyiv/Leipzig)
  • Deborah Manavi (Kassel/Leipzig)
  • and friends

For Whom: those who already have an introduction to CI practice and techniques of weight sharing, physical listening, and adaptation

Explorations class/labs will be deeper dives into specific pathways into contact practice mixed with vocabulary introduction and practice tailored to the group, all of this leading into open practice and integration.

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